| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.4

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Book Review

The Disfranchisement Myth: Poor Whites and Suffrage Restriction in Alabama. By Glenn Feldman. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2004. xvi, 311 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8203-2615-1.)
The core claim of The Disfranchisement Myth is that poor southern whites were more racist and more willing to act on that racism in late nineteenth-century elections than most historians have acknowledged. Southern historians (especially C. Vann Woodward, J. Morgan Kousser, Michael Perman, and Samuel Webb), Glenn Feldman argues, have mythologized hill country whites' opposition to disfranchisement. Feldman sets out to demolish this "myth."	1
As a sociologist, even one trained in the South and whose recent book has analyzed the history of disfranchisement, I may have failed to discern the myth that Feldman says governs southern historiography. Still, I know what I read and find Feldman's notion of the disfranchisement myth overblown at best and seriously misleading at worst.	. . .

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